possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and
prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)).
+Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows
+the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the
+latte case).
+
** Disobedience
There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From
here they can be played or their preferences changed.
+Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover
+for the full name.
+
** Network Play
DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
** Server
-Cache slow file lookups in the server. Should help installations with
-large collections and/or slow platforms.
-
-The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of
-Disobedience.
+Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help
+installations with large collections and/or slow platforms.
The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone.
Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next.
is now built into the server, where it can be done much more
efficiently.
+'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified.
+
A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
and FLAC. The example config file uses it.
+Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server
+(and all clients) are not blocked for the duration.
+
** disorderfm
There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
See CHANGES for details of recent changes to DisOrder.
-The server supports Linux and can be made to on a Mac. The clients work on
-both Linux and the Mac. It could probably be ported to some other UNIX
-variants in without too much effort. Things you will need:
+The server supports Linux and can be made to on a Mac (see README.mac). The
+clients work on both Linux and the Mac. It could probably be ported to some
+other UNIX variants without too much effort. Things you will need:
Build dependencies:
Name Tested Notes
See README.client for setting up a standalone client (or read the
disobedience man page).
- The server is only built by default under Linux. See README.mac concerning
- its use under OS X.
-
2. Install it. Most of the installation is done via the install target:
make installdirs install
- The CGI interface has to be installed separately:
-
- install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/disorder
+ The CGI interface has to be installed separately; see under 'Web Interface'
+ below.
3. Create a 'jukebox' user and group, with the jukebox group being the default
group of the jukebox user. The server will run as this user and group.
# htpasswd -b /home/jukebox/http.users othername otherpass
Adding password for user othername
-4. The jukebox must be configured to trust the web user. I added the following
- line to my /etc/disorder/config:
-
- trust www-data
-
- This might not be the same on your system! You have to specify the user
- that the CGI script runs as, whatever that is.
+4. The jukebox must be configured to trust the web user. The example
+ configuration assumes that this is www-data, but it might be something else
+ on your system. Edit the 'trust' line if necessary.
5. Install disorder.cgi in an appropriate location. Remember to make it
- executable. With the above configuration I installed it as
- ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi.
+ executable. For example:
+
+ install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi
6. Give www-data (or whatever user it is) a password and edit
/etc/disorder/config.private accordingly. This file should be mode 640 and
configured earlier, and be shown details of what is playing and what other
tracks have been configured for future play.
-9. Some features take time to start working, for instance those involving
- reporting the length of tracks. This is because the server starts up as
- quickly as possible even if the full track data has not yet been gathered;
- the track data is then calculated in the background.
-
-10. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
- message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
- diagnose the problem all by itself.
+9. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
+ message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
+ diagnose the problem all by itself.
-11. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
+10. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
that the 'Choose' page is unreasonably large. If so add the following line
to /etc/disorder/options.user:
label sidebar.choosewhich choosealpha
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